Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2017, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (5): 476-482.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2017.05.006

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Effect of Moral Identity and Moral Identification on Ethical Behaviors in SOEs: Differences and Interactions

GUO Sheng-hao1,2, XIAO Ming-zheng1,2   

  1. (1. School of Government, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; 2. Research Center of Human Resources Development and Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China)
  • Received:2016-11-16 Revised:2016-11-16 Online:2017-09-25 Published:2017-09-20
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Abstract: Employees' ethical behavior at work is of great significance to the production, operation, and moral and spiritual civilization of enterprises. Based on the data collected with traced and other-rated (N=394) approaches, the typical ethical behaviors—organizational citizenship behaviors and ethical influencing factors were analyzed by using the latent structural equation model. It was found that moral identification has a significant positive impact on employees' organizational citizenship behaviors, that is, the higher the moral identification of an employees is, the higher the level of organizational citizenship behaviors on both individual and organizational aspects will be; however, the direct impact of moral identity, which is of more practical concern, is not significant at all. Then, the interaction test showed that moral identity plays a moderating role: to the individual with lower moral identity, the impact of moral identification on organizational citizenship behaviors in the individual aspect is much stronger. It was concluded that employees' moral construction should not only focus on the individuals' moral identity, and moral identification is a more effective way to promote the moral behaviors of employees, especially the ones with low moral identity.

Key words: moral identity, moral identification, ethical behavior, organizational citizenship behavior

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